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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is a teacher as are many of my friends.  I just do not know how they keep from losing it with parents like this.  I have so much admiration for their ability to ignore the stupidity and just teach.  I simply cannot imagine dealing with the OP or her kid day after day. [/quote]
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Geez, some nasty ass people on this forum. OP asked for a way to ask the teacher for their schedule, and ya'll acting like she asking for their blood type and ss#.

OP, try to ignore posts like that. Its an anonymous forum, so they use any chance to let out their bitterness on here. Just ask the teacher for the schedule. If they give it ot you great, you're good to go. If not, then teach your child the most important things and talk to the principal about the lack of transparency. It is not worth going above that for.

It all really depends on the teacher, which will change from year to year, so you don't want to depend on them anyway. But your taxes pay their salary and they are teaching your child so you have the right to ask. [/quote]

How does having the teacher's schedule help in this situation? If OP knows that ELA is taught from 9:15-11:00 as opposed to 1:30-3:15, how does that help OP?[/quote]

Yearly schedule. As in Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec.[/quote]

DP and a public school teacher who supplemented my kids: I never worried about trying to match up with their classroom teacher’s schedule. I made my own calendar and if things overlapped, great. If not, NBD. Everything we did was interdisciplinary and hands on learning. No worksheets. No quizzes. Sometimes, it was really nice for them that what we did at home didn’t match in any way what they did at school.[/quote]

This is a nice way of looking at it too. Afterschool and school need not matching up or build up on one another. They can go in their own parallel tracks and meet up when it happens.[/quote]

I generally don't have a problem with it matching up or not. My main problem is repeating something that my daughter has already learned and mastered in school, or her learning things in school that she has already learned and mastered from me, and then her getting bored as a result. Its a little annoying when I've already planned everything out. Happened a couple of times last year. Also, there are a ton of things I can choose to teach her, so I don't want to choose something that the school is perfectly fine providing instruction in and then I'm annoyed because I should've chosen another topic that I wanted.

It helps to know what the teacher is teaching if you don't want to burden your child with double the school, that way you can zero in on what really matters and just [u]supplement [/u]what she is learning already by either reinforcing important stuff or filling in important gaps (the latter is subjective). The only time I will teach what the teacher has already taught is if I find that she didn't do well absorbing the instruction from the teacher, but they've already moved on to another unit. Its still good to know ahead of time what might be coming up. [/quote]

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